What will the tower–designed by architect William Pereira, who also designed the Transamerica pyramid in San Francisco CBS Television City in Los Angeles–look like after the renovation is completed?

Yuval Bar-Zemer, a member of Linear City working on the project, said the firm is still working on finalizing design details. But construction is scheduled to begin in October and take about 14 months to complete.

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Cool building, should make some nice apartments with great views (infinitely better than Orsini-type stuff). Victor Heights is a little neighborhood with a lot of potential as well and this conversion could help give it a boost – especially if there is some small scale ground floor retail.

This place is just around the bend, more or less, from the “Brownstone Lofts” or whatever the latest developer is calling it – now back under construction as apartments. Between the two, there may well be an audience for a retail business (other than CVS), restaurant (other than Jack in the Box) or watering hole (does Club Bahia count?). Turn Seng’s Auto Repair into an indoor/outdoor eatery/beer garden? Just a little wishful thinking…

This property has been an interesting wreck for as long as I can remember and that part of the Eastside is ripe for some solid re-development. I’m looking forward to seeing what this group puts together for this site, especially since their mixed-use projects in Downtown Los Angeles have really come together.

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